Shikha Rana is an experienced professional in the fields of research, monitoring, and evaluation, currently serving as Assistant Vice President at Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. since June 2021. Previously, Shikha held managerial roles at DevInsights Pvt. Ltd. focusing on monitoring, learning, and evaluation in various sectors including WASH, public health, and education. Early career experience includes roles such as Program Officer at the Association for Development, where Shikha worked with survivors of violence, and various positions as a Student Social Worker addressing issues related to vulnerable populations and rehabilitation within the criminal justice system. Shikha received an European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights and holds a Master's in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
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Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Sambodhi Research & Communications helps create high-impact knowledge to catalyse accountability in public domain. We offer project management, monitoring & evaluation and research solutions to implementers, federal and state governments, bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and corporate philanthropic foundations. Over the past decade, we have pioneered cutting-edge methodologies for evaluation of large-scale interventions across sectors and themes including public health, nutrition, sanitation, natural resources, renewable energy, livelihoods and microfinance. Sambodhi also works towards enhancing appreciation of evidence-based functioning among development organisations and practitioners. As part of our field-building effort, we co-founded the Community of Evaluators-South Asia (CoE-SA); are home to the South Asian Journal for Evaluation in Practice (SAJEP) – first-of-its-kind peer reviewed journal on evaluation from this region; and have trained more than 5,000 professionals on M&E and related areas.